When threatened by a predator, spiders can detach their legs in a process called autotomy – up to 40 per cent of wild spiders have missing legs as a result. Their legs fully grow back when they ...

However, the Uloboridae spiders make their webs out of a wooly silk (called cribellate) which has velcro-like strands in which the insect’s legs and bristles get stuck. Orb-weaving spiders take ...